Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-10


running OF the liquid, and this is just
what happens in the udder to make the
last part Of q milking richer in cream
than the first The larger the globules
OF cream, the more friction they meet
with in moving along the tubes and the
more gets left behind. 1t is for this req
son that III milk having very large
globules, like that of the Channel Island
COWS, the difference between the first
and last of a milkingi is greater than
when they are small, as in the milk
of the famous Dutch cows.-Live Stock
journal. r.4-;
TURF PERFORMERS.
Many of the celebrated turf perform
ers in the past have been animals which
possessed remarkably strong wills with
fast records. Flora Temple, the first
trotter to trot in public in 2.192, was
one of that kind. Goldsmith Maid, win
ner of 1872 heats in $50 OF better, ia
of which were trotted in 2,20 or faster;
was another of the same sort, and her
most successful rival, Lady Thorne g.
1879, gained considerable notoriety on
account of having mind of her own.
The famous trotting mare Princess,
dam of Happy Medium, must be classed
in the same category, judging from a
testimonial given by Robert Bonner to
the we'll known horse trainer, D. Wagner,
in 1872, from which the following is an
extract: Il have myself handled Prin-
cess. the famous old competitor of Flora
Temple, on your system, and, although
she was at one time so vicious as to be
almost unmanageable, my youngest boy,
lad of ~, has during the past week
been driving her daily in Central
Park"
LATE WEEDS IN POTATOES.
1t is the almost universal practice to
hill up and lay by potatoes before the
busy labors of the hay and harvest field
begin. This is too early for late growing
varieties, as they become very weedy,
and the crop is seriously injured there
by. Even early potatoes often have
their yields decreased and their drying
up fastened by weeds. Where large
weeds appear in the middle of the hill
it is impossible to pull them without
disturbing the potato roots. The only
way is to cut the weeds out close to the
ground, or a little under if possible, with
knife. This is tedious work and not
nearly so good as keeping the hill clean
when light brush with the hoe would
destroy small weeds without injuring
the potato plant. In my experience
the stirring Of the surface of the hill
with hoe sufficient and often enough
to keep the weeds from starting is not
injuring the crop. Deeper cultivation
would without doubt be hurtful and pro-
badly worse than the common method
of letting weeds and potatoes grow to-
gether. In rich land. as in gardens,
the potatoes thus managed are often
covered with weeds when it is time to
harvest, them.
| CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF INSECTS.
Since general attention was first
called to these diseases few years ago
by Professor Forbes studies of the cpl
demic among cabbage worms, it has
been found that many similar pests
are also subject to contagious diseases,
which destroy them by the thousands.
Such epidemics among forest tent cat
erpillars, ycllow-necked apple worms
and one or two other species have
already been deliberately studied, and
moro or less successful EXP ailments
have been made in arti6cially spread
ing the disease among them. DR..
Forbes has discovered frightfully
contagious disease among cut worms
and army wormsin Southern Illinois. In
many parts of that region cut worms
have this year been extraordinarily
abundant, taking nearly every green
thing. Whole fields of oats were eaten
SO clean that the ground was left per.
perfectly bare. Corn was planted
twice or thrice, and garden vegetables
were generally destroyed. In the
| mluSI OF tne1r pernlc1OuS Work, now
ever, the destroyers were themselves
attacked by rapidly spreading bacte-
rial disease. In some oat fields the cut
worms were left by the dozen, lying
on the surface of the ground in every
stage of disease and decay.
These insect plaques are commonly
due to either bacteria or fungi. To the
first mentioned is due the cabbage-worm
plague above noticed and the ssfoul
brood" of the honey bee and to the lat.
ter is due the fatal muscardine of the
silk worm and the disease among clio.
ver-leaf beetles, described not long ago
by Professor J. G. Arthur. OF the de-
structiveness of these maladies Profess.
or Forbes writes: '.No diseases known
to men are more violent or frightfully
destructive than some of the plaques
which infest the insect world, where
they have. indeed, fixed place in the
economy of insect life, suddenly erect
ing perfectly impossible barriers against
great irruptions: Of the moro prolific
species. Whenever any species becomes
so abundant as to threaten the sources